Manager, Sop

**1. JOB DETAILS:
**Position Title**:Section Manager

**Broad Band**:M11: Experienced professional

**Talent Pipeline Layer**:Managing Others (MO)

**2. OVERALL JOB PURPOSE**:
Accountable for first line leadership and management of team members mining to enable the work of self and team members and building their expertise and skills, and deliver frontline team results such as safety, production, maintenance, quality, cost and motivation

**3. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
**Qualification**:
1. B.Tech/M.Tech/Bachelors/Masters/PhD of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 3 years as Section Manager
2. Relevant Business Management Qualification (e.g. MBA) preferred

**Experience**:
1. 8 Years relevant industry experience
2. International experience preferred

**Skills**:

- Acute safety awareness and attitude
- Experience in mining industry
- Change agent
- Proven management and leadership skills
- Critical thinking
- Ability to foster teamwork and effectively manage conflict
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Business acumen
- Sound knowledge and understanding of practical impact of all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of Ma’aden safety codes, regulation, rules, procedures and processes
- Advanced understanding of specific section's regulations, processes and procedures
- Advanced knowledge of statutory process compliance requirements, and understanding of the relevant regulatory and compliance issues specific to the Affiliate
- Advanced knowledge of safety procedures (e.g. risk assessments, root cause analysis, deviation analysis, etc.)
- Subject matter expert on the specific systems
- Competent in using applicable technology software and/or systems
- Sound analytical, problem solving skills and decision making skills
- Persuading, influencing and facilitation skills
- Advanced understanding of fundamentals of business and the value chain
- Highly competent in troubleshooting and implementing corrective actions
- Advanced knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, cost, and other techniques for maximising the effective manufacture and distribution of goods
- Familiar with materials, services, financial and other planning related work methods
- Advanced working knowledge of appropriate tools and systems to find, extract and analyse data and produce reports
- Sound verbal and writing communication skills
- Coping with pressures and setbacks
- Design thinking

**4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:
**Focus Area**

Get results through individual contributions

**Operational / Functional**

1. Self & team consistently meets targets, due dates and quality standards (production, service, advice, etc.)
2. Achieve Quality targets by consistently reducing all non-value-adding work
3. Cost target achievement by consistently improving team productivity
4. All Plans and team objectives consistently executed and achieved in a safe working environment
5. Productivity target achievement
6. Achievement of Saudization targets
- Manage all resources (people, money, equipment, etc) responsibly, ensuring safety and continuous compliance with requirements (cost, quality, due dates, targets)
- Manage and control mining chemicals/explosives
- Manage shift personnel (rebalance personnel competency level in shifts)
- Manage contracts and contractors
- Develop and implement the production visions for the mining section
- Consistently reduce all non-value-adding work and improve productivity
- Have frequent financial meetings with subordinates to ensure proper cost control
- Communicate and ensure that vision, values and business direction are embraced by the team
- Performance management of team (facilitate frequent performance dialogue and take corrective action/give recognition)
- Identify talent and develop personnel to ensure a competent work force and appropriate career development
- Ensure proper talent management in area of responsibility
- Communicate, facilitate and execute change and improvement effectively
- Meet operations target in line with customer forecast and nominated quantity
- Sampling, testing, laboratory analysis (product validation)
- Reports (fiscal, daily, monthly)
- Responsible for the product quality
- Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards
- Achieve agreed OPEX and CAPEX budget
- Develop the section budget, implement and manage (following approval) and ensure financial discipline amongst team members
- Compile operations budget and manage it
- Prioritise and optimise operations opportunities
- Consistently reduce all non-value-adding work
- Delivering the compliance within the safety and environmental plan
- Investigate opportunities to debottle neck equipment and process flow
- Ensure that plant equipment is technically functioning as per design intend
- HAZOP attendance to ensure safe design and plant changes
- Act as ER controller in the case of emergency (During emergency situations, eval